Whales

Author : Brian Skerry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781426221873
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of the Whales written by Brian Skerry and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book of photography offers bold new insight into the lives of the world's largest mammals, along with their complex societies. In these pages, we learn that whales share an amazing ability to learn and adapt to opportunities, from specialized feeding strategies to parenting techniques. There is also evidence of deeper, cultural elements of whale identity, from unique dialects to matrilineal societies to organized social customs like singing contests. Featuring the arresting underwater images of Brian Skerry, who has explored and documented oceans for over four decades, this book will document these alluring creatures in all their glory--and demonstrate how these majestic creatures can teach us about ourselves and our planet.

Author : Adriaen Coenen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861891741
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whale Book written by Adriaen Coenen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written in Dutch, Adriaen Coenen's illustrated manuscripts represent the first European natural history of whales and other marine animals.

Author : Roger Payne
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Among Whales written by Roger Payne and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking readers on a journey across the spectrum of life to discover the answers to the larger questions of life on Earth, an eminent field biologist addresses a wide range of subjects--from the purpose of the brain to the possibilities of peaceful cohabitation among the world's creatures. 9 charts.

Author : Darcy Dobell
Publisher : Little Gestalten
ISBN 13 : 9783899558302
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Whales written by Darcy Dobell and published by Little Gestalten. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Did you know that the biggest animal on Earth, the blue whale, only eats some of the smallest creatures in the ocean? That humpback whales sing underwater songs with lots of verses? Or that orcas can live with their families for their whole lives and bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years? The World of Whales explores the special characteristics and reveals mind-blowing facts about these fantastic animals. Join our sub-aquatic expedition through the vast oceans of our planet." --

Author : Seymour Simon
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060877118
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whales written by Seymour Simon and published by Collins. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exceptional nonfiction for children from two of the most trusted names in science education: Seymour Simon and the Smithsonian Institution.

Author : Leigh Calvez
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1632171872
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Breath of a Whale written by Leigh Calvez and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean, home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales. Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature's most remarkable creatures, including the familial orcas in the waters of Washington State and British Columbia; the migratory humpbacks; the ancient, deep-diving blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. The lives of these whales are conveyed through the work of dedicated researchers who have spent decades tracking them along their secretive routes that extend for thousands of miles, gleaning their habits and sounds and distinguishing peculiarities. The author invites the reader onto a small research catamaran maneuvering among 100-foot long blue whales off the coast of California; or to join the task of monitoring patterns of humpback whale movements at the ocean surface: tail throw, flipper slap, fluke up, or blow. To experience whales is breathtaking. To understand their lives deepens our connection with the natural world.

Author : Bryant Austin
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683355547
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Whale written by Bryant Austin and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVPhotographer and conservationist Bryant Austin’s breathtaking photographic project Beautiful Whale is the first of its kind: It chronicles his fearless attempts to reach out to whales as fellow sentient beings. Featuring Austin’s intimate images—some as detailed as a single haunting eye—that result from encounters based on mutual trust, Beautiful Whale captures the grace and intelligence of these magnificent creatures. Austin spent days at a time submerged, motionless, in the waters of remote spawning grounds waiting for humpback, sperm, and minke whales to seek him out. As oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle says in her foreword to the book, “As an ambassador from the ocean—and to the ocean—Bryant Austin is not only a source of inspiration. He is cause for hope.†? Praise for Beautiful Whale: “You can’t help thinking, with every passing page, that this is what’s it’s like to swim with the whales.†? —The Wall Street Journal /div

Author : Joyce Milton
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385374631
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whales: The Gentle Giants written by Joyce Milton and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illus. in full color. "Milton understands what kids like about whales, and packs a considerable amount of information into the book. This easy-reader leaps with appeal."--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.

Author : Roy Chapman Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All about Whales written by Roy Chapman Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humpback, the sulphurbottom (a whopping 110 feet) the finback, the killer - these are a sampling of the varieties [the author] talks about in ... detail as to habit, and habitat, evolution and physical characteristics. Meanwhile, he has interspersed his data with many a whaling experience - personal and historical - that bring these fabulous mammals into romantic perspective.

Author : Chie Sakakibara
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816529612
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whale Snow written by Chie Sakakibara and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a mythical creature, the whale has been responsible for many transformations in the world. It is an enchanting being that humans have long felt a connection to. In the contemporary environmental imagination, whales are charismatic megafauna feeding our environmentalism and aspirations for a better and more sustainable future. Using multispecies ethnography, Whale Snow explores how everyday the relatedness of the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska and the bowhead whale forms and transforms “the human” through their encounters with modernity. Whale Snow shows how the people live in the world that intersects with other beings, how these connections came into being, and, most importantly, how such intimate and intense relations help humans survive the social challenges incurred by climate change. In this time of ecological transition, exploring multispecies relatedness is crucial as it keeps social capacities to adapt relational, elastic, and resilient. In the Arctic, climate, culture, and human resilience are connected through bowhead whaling. In Whale Snow we see how climate change disrupts this ancient practice and, in the process, affects a vital expression of Indigenous sovereignty. Ultimately, though, this book offers a story of hope grounded in multispecies resilience.